On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20.02, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
[debian infrastructure]
> I've been wondering, would it be an idea (for the long-term) to use
> (more) distributed ... or p2p concepts to reduce the dependency and
> load on central servers?
You said it yourself: in the long term.
I think that some of the P2P network concepts might be very interesting for
some things like file hosting etc. - but this won't be feasible within the
next few weeks or even months. Additionally, you need to keep in mind that
- depending on what exactly you'd want to do - current oldstable's tools
would reasonably have to be supported at least until oldstable becomes
veryoldstable, so any benefits of such a new system would have a big effect
only slowly.
So I guess, the standard open-source-project-answer applies: if you like
the idea, write the code, propose to implement it - at least as a
small-scale prototype - and then we'll look at it.
cheers
-- vbi
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